What are you listening 2 now?

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Linz

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70
Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 'The Year 1917'
Dresdner Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling

Linz

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Eugen Jochum

Daverz

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 - Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa


This is a really great Mahler 2.

Brian

I take all my orders from kyjo!


Dry Brett Kavanaugh


Symphonic Addict

Wagner: His three piano sonatas

Lovely and harmless music with no other purpose than to charm.

The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Kalevala

Quote from: DavidW on August 19, 2025, 06:44:21 AMThread duty:

Martinu's 5th and 6th (esp. like the 6th) and Bartok's SQs:



Oooh!  I bet that that is a good one!

@ritter That collection of older French piano recordings looks intriguing.  :)

K

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Albeniz - Suite Espanola and Iberia.





Symphonic Addict

Kuhlau: Flute sonatas opp. 64, 69, 71 and 83-1

In spite of the so-so quality of the recording, I enjoyed these sonatas quite a bit.

The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Symphonic Addict

Bruckner: String Quintet in F major

I wish Bruckner had written more chamber music of this quality. Some few seconds in the first movement and you can detect his unmistakable voice. Formidable performance too.

The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Traverso

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 19, 2025, 01:01:23 PMJS Bach organ music.






Bram Beekman is truly a great performer,his recordings are a treasure.

AnotherSpin


Que

#134352


A recording new to me.

PS Two observations:
Singing is excellent, but I do not feel as engaged as I like to be. Secondly, this: "Combining the language of the Renaissance with very different sounds - ondes Martenot, Fender Rhodes piano, Buchla synthesizer - they create a lively and astonishingly fertile dialogue."
I'm sure this kind of off-putting tinkering was really necessary.. *cough*

It's a dud...

Irons

Bax: Symphony No.2

Lloyd-Jones is my 'home' for the set of Bax symphonies. More structure and less Celtic twilight, although to be fair the more I listen to the symphonies I am coming to the realisation there is less Bax of the tone poems then I thought - his chamber music is different again. Anyway, DLJ plays with a straight bat and I like that.
This release was recorded 30 years ago this month (August). How time flies! 
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

vandermolen

Stephen Paulus: Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (Naxos CD)
A most heart-warming and inspiriting score (I'm having trouble posting images at the moment)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

AnotherSpin


Que


AnotherSpin

Quote from: Que on August 19, 2025, 11:53:35 PMJust added to the original post.

Thank you! I'm glad I didn't get lazy about asking... ;)

Que

#134358


I finally found this recording again! After I heard it before, a remembered the correct label (Opus 111) but somehow thought it was by the ensemble Micrologus. I'm generally not keen on Cantica Symphonia and Maletto - they did a series of Franco-Flemish masses (Glossa) with instrumental accompaniment which I do not like, but this earlier recording (2000) of French Ars Nova music I quite like!

ritter

Sylvano Bussotti's Le semi di Gramsci, symphonic poem for string quartet and orchestra. Quartetto Italiano, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Bruno Maderna (cond.).


Wow!!!!! Wonderful!!!
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